Some Thoughts on a Very Disappointing Night

Here are some quick thoughts:

1. It shouldn't surprise anyone with what happened in our basketball game. The basketball program has too many clowns in it & has for sometime. It's extremely obvious that we have to recruit tougher kids. Hopefully Perry & Woodard are that. The program has lacked tough leadership for a decade.

2. Don't look to much into the baseball loss tonight. Auburn had a good bit go there way to win that one. It'll be good to see how this team handles adversity. Tough loss tonight but not a big deal in the long run. Unlike our basketball program, the baseball program has tough kids & will respond positively.

3. Lastly, here is picture of behind home plate tonight in the 5th inning well before the Womens' Basketball game started.

https://i.imgur.com/im3reXX.png

I am just failing to understand why these seats are always empty.

Who are the people that own these seats?
Why do they choose to never show up for baseball games?
Why would people spend money on these baseball seats & never come to games?

We are considered one of the top 3 most passionate baseball fan bases in the country, yet this issue continues to make us look like shit.
Can you imagine turning on an Alabama football game & seeing blocks of empty seats on the 50 yard line?
Can you imagine turning on a Duke game & seeing empty lower seats at Cameron?

Why is this ok? If these people just want to spend money, then do everyone a favor & just make a donation & let others that actually attend baseball games sit in those seats. It's a problem that has existed far too long, cheapens our baseball program, & is apparently well beyond the mental capacity of our athletic department to fix. It look absolutely awful on TV.

Some thoughts:

1. Screw everything

Who are the people that own these seats? - Our richest alumni
Why do they choose to never show up for baseball games? - Too old to get to games anymore
Why would people spend money on these baseball seats & never come to games? - because we are MState.

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Originally Posted by smootness

Some thoughts:

1. Screw everything

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Haha... I'm bout to hit a casino

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Originally Posted by msstate7

Haha... I'm bout to hit a casino

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If you see Michael Jordan there, could you please ask him to come teach our players how to not suck? Thanks in advance.**

If you put the university of Alabama In Eutaw. Removed all their football national championships. Also, required them to play three games a weekend, one of which is on a workday. Then yeah,...... I can see the comparison.

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Originally Posted by Skydawg1

Who are the people that own these seats? - Our richest alumni
Why do they choose to never show up for baseball games? - Too old to get to games anymore
Why would people spend money on these baseball seats & never come to games? - because we are MState.

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Well tell them to just make a donation & stop taking seats from people that actually want to attend baseball games. They are legitimately hurting our program to some extent due to this. It looks terrible on TV

I been looking for Chairback seats to any home weekend series and can't find any on vividseat, seatgeek or any other sites. I hate not getting to enjoy a game where high dollar seats aren't being used and I have to do standing room only type stuff.

The grandstand issue is way past beyond time to fix. And we have the technology available to fix it. What we have done is basically taken the average Joe fan and thrown them on the grass or we make them stand while there are hundreds of empty seats in the grandstand. And you can't just sit in a seat usually because the overzealous ushers make sure everyone is in their assigned seats.

I think it's at the point now where seats in the grandstand only should matter for Super Bulldog Weekend and postseason play. And that's it. Every other game- open seating first come first served.

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Originally Posted by ShotgunDawg

Here are some quick thoughts:

1. It shouldn't surprise anyone with what happened in our basketball game. The basketball program has too many clowns in it & has for sometime. It's extremely obvious that we have to recruit tougher kids. Hopefully Perry & Woodard are that. The program has lacked tough leadership for a decade.

2. Don't look to much into the baseball loss tonight. Auburn had a good bit go there way to win that one. It'll be good to see how this team handles adversity. Tough loss tonight but not a big deal in the long run. Unlike our basketball program, the baseball program has tough kids & will respond positively.

3. Lastly, here is picture of behind home plate tonight in the 5th inning well before the Womens' Basketball game started.

https://i.imgur.com/im3reXX.png

I am just failing to understand why these seats are always empty.

Who are the people that own these seats?
Why do they choose to never show up for baseball games?
Why would people spend money on these baseball seats & never come to games?

We are considered one of the top 3 most passionate baseball fan bases in the country, yet this issue continues to make us look like shit.
Can you imagine turning on an Alabama football game & seeing blocks of empty seats on the 50 yard line?
Can you imagine turning on a Duke game & seeing empty lower seats at Cameron?

Why is this ok? If these people just want to spend money, then do everyone a favor & just make a donation & let others that actually attend baseball games sit in those seats. It's a problem that has existed far too long, cheapens our baseball program, & is apparently well beyond the mental capacity of our athletic department to fix. It look absolutely awful on TV.

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From someone who owns chairbacks let me say this; it's extremely hard to get to all three games on a weekend if you don't live immediately in the area or within a reasonable commuting distance. It's not like football where you are going to just one game a weekend. By the time you get off work on a Friday afternoon it's hard to get down there on time. If I can't get there, I always try to ensure my tickets are used and offer them up. It's very easy to do now that they can be transferred to someone, anyone electronically to their email address. Plus, the crowds will get bigger as the weather begins to warm as well.

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Originally Posted by ShotgunDawg

Here are some quick thoughts:

1. It shouldn't surprise anyone with what happened in our basketball game. The basketball program has too many clowns in it & has for sometime. It's extremely obvious that we have to recruit tougher kids. Hopefully Perry & Woodard are that. The program has lacked tough leadership for a decade.

2. Don't look to much into the baseball loss tonight. Auburn had a good bit go there way to win that one. It'll be good to see how this team handles adversity. Tough loss tonight but not a big deal in the long run. Unlike our basketball program, the baseball program has tough kids & will respond positively.

3. Lastly, here is picture of behind home plate tonight in the 5th inning well before the Womens' Basketball game started.

https://i.imgur.com/im3reXX.png

I am just failing to understand why these seats are always empty.

Who are the people that own these seats?
Why do they choose to never show up for baseball games?
Why would people spend money on these baseball seats & never come to games?

We are considered one of the top 3 most passionate baseball fan bases in the country, yet this issue continues to make us look like shit.
Can you imagine turning on an Alabama football game & seeing blocks of empty seats on the 50 yard line?
Can you imagine turning on a Duke game & seeing empty lower seats at Cameron?

Why is this ok? If these people just want to spend money, then do everyone a favor & just make a donation & let others that actually attend baseball games sit in those seats. It's a problem that has existed far too long, cheapens our baseball program, & is apparently well beyond the mental capacity of our athletic department to fix. It look absolutely awful on TV.

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I actually laughed out loud after we lost to Liberty because of two things: It's typical for us and we just blasted Ole Miss for getting blown out by Oklahoma and this is more embarrassing. Posters on here talking about how we're going to blow the lid off Liberty and of course we lose. We don't just lose to any typical 12 seed either it has to be Liberty......lol I'm sure anyone here with two brain cells to rub together can see the irony in all this.

Not upset about the baseball game as far as the outcome is concerned. We'll be alright. You'd want better attendance but heck we had a Mens basketball tournament game for the first time in ages and our #1 seeded womens team is playing as well. Doesn't surprise me so I wouldn't look to deep into that.

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Originally Posted by ShotgunDawg

Who are the people that own these seats?
Why do they choose to never show up for baseball games?
Why would people spend money on these baseball seats & never come to games?

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Don't you know, all of those folks were in San Jose. They were the only ones who could afford to go across country for the game.***

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Originally Posted by Todd4State

The grandstand issue is way past beyond time to fix. And we have the technology available to fix it. What we have done is basically taken the average Joe fan and thrown them on the grass or we make them stand while there are hundreds of empty seats in the grandstand. And you can't just sit in a seat usually because the overzealous ushers make sure everyone is in their assigned seats.

I think it's at the point now where seats in the grandstand only should matter for Super Bulldog Weekend and postseason play. And that's it. Every other game- open seating first come first served.

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Amen to everything in this post.

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Originally Posted by Matt3467

I actually laughed out loud after we lost to Liberty because of two things: It's typical for us and we just blasted Ole Miss for getting blown out by Oklahoma and this is more embarrassing. Posters on here talking about how we're going to blow the lid off Liberty and of course we lose. We don't just lose to any typical 12 seed either it has to be Liberty......lol I'm sure anyone here with two brain cells to rub together can see the irony in all this.

Not upset about the baseball game as far as the outcome is concerned. We'll be alright. You'd want better attendance but heck we had a Mens basketball tournament game for the first time in ages and our #1 seeded womens team is playing as well. Doesn't surprise me so I wouldn't look to deep into that.

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Good job. I wish all chairback holders were like you. The simplest solution is to tell the ushers to stop checking tickets after the Top of the 2nd. If you aren't in your seat by then, too fcking bad. Sit in another empty seat.

ETA: Meant to reply to Saltydawg with this post.

Tonight's attendance was 10029. Just FYI. I believe that's the largest crowd of the season so far. Tomorrow will be yuge.

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Originally Posted by Skydawg1

Tonight's attendance was 10029. Just FYI. I believe that's the largest crowd of the season so far. Tomorrow will be yuge.

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Let me be clear. We don't have a baseball attendance issue.

We have an attendance issue only with the rich 17ers that buy the prime grand stand seats.

I wouldn't say anything if these seats were just empty sometimes, but they are literally empty EVERY.SINGLE.GAME

The people that own those seats and many other in the grand stand only attend 1 or 2 series a year & the regionals.

I'm not here to say that they should be attending, but for goodness sake don't continue to buy the prime stadium seats & not show up; thus making our baseball program look bad.

Watch an LSU, Arkansas, or Ole Miss home SEC series & you'll see that for some reason they don't have this issue

Not sure of your locale Shotgun but let's say you lived in Jackson or south of there and you didn't get off work until 5! Would you be there Friday night at 6 and then back again Saturday at 2 and then again Sunday at noon? That's tough to do. Now, if you're a local yocal then maybe but not all of us are that close. Going back to Saturday doubleheaders would help alleviate this issue but that's not going to happen. Again, I try to ensure my seats are taken if I can't get there but I can't speak for everyone else.

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Originally Posted by ShotgunDawg

Here are some quick thoughts:

1. It shouldn't surprise anyone with what happened in our basketball game. The basketball program has too many clowns in it & has for sometime. It's extremely obvious that we have to recruit tougher kids. Hopefully Perry & Woodard are that. The program has lacked tough leadership for a decade.

2. Don't look to much into the baseball loss tonight. Auburn had a good bit go there way to win that one. It'll be good to see how this team handles adversity. Tough loss tonight but not a big deal in the long run. Unlike our basketball program, the baseball program has tough kids & will respond positively.

3. Lastly, here is picture of behind home plate tonight in the 5th inning well before the Womens' Basketball game started.

https://i.imgur.com/im3reXX.png

I am just failing to understand why these seats are always empty.

Who are the people that own these seats?
Why do they choose to never show up for baseball games?
Why would people spend money on these baseball seats & never come to games?

We are considered one of the top 3 most passionate baseball fan bases in the country, yet this issue continues to make us look like shit.
Can you imagine turning on an Alabama football game & seeing blocks of empty seats on the 50 yard line?
Can you imagine turning on a Duke game & seeing empty lower seats at Cameron?

Why is this ok? If these people just want to spend money, then do everyone a favor & just make a donation & let others that actually attend baseball games sit in those seats. It's a problem that has existed far too long, cheapens our baseball program, & is apparently well beyond the mental capacity of our athletic department to fix. It look absolutely awful on TV.

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You left out the ladies. Thay rolled.

Baseball... we lost a close one to a very good team. We will struggle to win this series after losing that one It's baseball. Men's basketball: It was bad...but getting to the Dance is an enourmous step forward. We don't have a birthright to get there. The Ladies, which you ignored, rolled.....as they should have.

To all those bitching about chair back seats at baseball. Understand your Athletic Department doesn’t give a shit if anyone sits in those seats they only care about the dollars spent to buy them. With the new stadium we successfully killed off a generation of people that were a big part of Supporting the baseball program for the last 40 years. This is just the reality of the situation the people that used to sit in chair back seats were priced out of them. The only thing that matters is the $$.